1.15.2014

today saw a primary aim of the trip, sneaking into a vast, 10 mile wide, abandoned iron mine complex that generated the initial capital of the kaiser corporate empire. 40 mile backdoors are hard to open unless you have a bicycle.wiki

nobody comes this way anymore

sign was sunbaked and illegible, we figure it probably said "welcome" or something similar

bobby is the blue speck at the lower third intersection of the frame

it is hard to convey scale here

at left, the mine continues deep beneath the basin plane. at right, the abandoned gold mine.

we camouflaged ourselves with painting canvas and got down to it

new acropolis

the leach fields were each about a mile wide and 60 feet deep. land art scale.